Quotes About Journey

Before long the rain turned into sleet, then hail that drummed across the decking.

The nearest known place where they might at least find food and shelter was tiny Paulet Island

The Caird's bow was brought up into the wind, and the long wait for daybreak was begun.

Then, at just about two o'clock, they saw where they were.

And they realized at once that it lay directly in their path.

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.

The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months.

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more

The next morning, three seals were sighted, and Macklin was sent out with Tom Crean to fetch them.

It brought the total run since the beginning of the gale to 84 miles—in six days.

January 25, and to McNeish it was a "proper sea fog," indicating the presence of the ice-free ocean nearby.

The Stancomb Wills was safe in camp by one o'clock.

These words were written on the flyleaf of a Bible given to the expedition by Queen Mother

advantage of the following wind to make for King George Island.

The plan, as they all knew, was to march toward Paulet Island, 346 miles to the northwest

and they would be dragging two of their three boats with them

Our distance from Paulet I. is now 94 miles

along with Sirius, an older puppy from an earlier litter

My opinion is that the chances of getting to Paulet Is. now are about 1 in 10. . . .

It now lay exactly 91 miles away. But it was off to the WNW

By 5 P.M., after three hours on the trail, they were 1 mile from the ship

it seemed that they would simply pass Paulet Island by.